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The opensource project ext2fsx (ext2fs for Mac OS X) has reached 1.0 final status. With it, you can read and write linux partitions that were created in this format. A disk image of version 1.0 final is available here.
[ written by fryke™ on 2003-11-16 at 22:38 CET ]
SimX of apple-x.net posts an article about StuffIt becoming obsolete with Panther incorporating .zip-archiving. We tend to agree in some points, however not in the main point of the author: "But I believe that it's time for StuffIt to go. Not the StuffIt Expander application -- that will always be useful for unstuffing the wide variety of already existing compression formats. But StuffIt needs to be kicked out of the position of king of compression."
[ written by fryke™ on 2003-11-16 at 20:11 CET ] Some tips for further use of macnews.net.tc The new backend for macnews.net.tc is an old one, actually, in a new version. When we've started macnews.net.tc loooooooong ago, we were using simple HTML pages. And then we've found blosxom, a simple perl blogging tool originally intended for your personal Mac. We found it so extensible (with a little coding) from the beginning, that we were using until we brought iCity up, which had an integrated news system. Now we're back using blosxom - and happy with it. One of the greatest things about it is that you can just add dates to the URL. Take a look at the main menu links at the top of this page to see what I mean. You can replace 'index.html' by '2003', for example, and you'll see all entries of this year. Add '2003/11' - and you'll see all entries of this month. As I've just brought back the archives from our old blosxom-times, you can go back to almost the beginning of macnews.net.tc. (Well, you can go back to August 2002, when we've started with blosxom for the first time.) :)
[ written by fryke™ on 2003-11-16 at 19:48 CET ] in the new layout of macnews.net.tc, please drop us a line. We haven't tested it on every platform and every browser yet (how can we, we're only using 3 platforms and 16 different browsers...), so there's a possibility that some things just don't work. Btw.: There's an RSS-Feed now for macnews.net.tc. You can use the following URL in your favourite newsreader application, if you want to. ;-) -> http://macintosh.fryke.com/cgi-bin/macnews.cgi/index.rss. (Something with the links seems to be wrong, so we'll have to take a look into it again, but for basic newsreading, it works just fine... Also: The headlines-links actually do what they're told. ;-))
[ written by fryke™ on 2003-11-16 at 18:24 CET ]
In the past week, we've heard that IBM will release blade servers based on 1.6 GHz G5 chips in March 2004, we've read ArsTechnica's Panther Review thoroughly and seen Mac OS X 10.3.1 7C107 appear on Software Update.
[ written by fryke™ on 2003-11-16 at 18:04 CET ]
We have spent the last year trying to build a community on our forum iCity. However, this has been a drag. First: There just are too many (good and bad) Macintosh fora around the web already. I myself am co-moderating macosx.com, and that's mainly where the news & rumours of macnews.net.tc are discussed anyway. For this reason - and to save some time and energy - we have decided not to have our own forums any longer. If you want to discuss our articles, why not do it on macosx.com? It's a great community, and you can always copy the 'story link' below an article to reference it. Those links are permanent links, so they'll also work in the future.
[ written by fryke™ on 2003-11-16 at 17:25 CET ] |
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